{"id":4856,"date":"2021-04-03T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2021-04-03T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T19:05:11","slug":"america-will-welcome-more-refugees-as-biden-lifts-trumps-misguided-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4856","title":{"rendered":"America Will Welcome More Refugees as Biden Lifts Trump’s Misguided Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Starting with the fiscal year that begins on October 1, the United States will accept up to 125,000 refugees annually”
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“This year the cap is set at just 15,000, the lowest single-year total<\/a> since the Refugee Act of 1980 standardized the admission process. Reversing those cuts, and then some\u2014the refugee cap was 110,000 in the final year of the Obama administration\u2014was a signal of America’s “moral leadership” in the world, Biden said.”  
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“The idea that refugees are a uniquely dangerous national security threat is simply not based in reality. Since 1975, a grand total of 20 refugees have been convicted of terrorism-related offenses in the United States\u2014in plots that have cumulatively killed three Americans, according to research<\/a> from Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Trump’s slashing of the overall refugee numbers also included a complete ban on admitting refugees from Syria, despite the fact that there has never been a terror attack on U.S. soil carried out by a Syrian refugee. Native-born Americans and foreigners with tourist visas are statistically far more likely to engage in terrorism on U.S. soil”  
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“while Trump’s actions did little to materially improve American national security, his anti-immigrant agenda<\/a> did successfully mangle the process for admitting refugees to the country. Beyond the short-term harm to individual immigrants awaiting resettlement, Trump’s reductions undermined the institutional infrastructure<\/a> at the nine nonprofit agencies<\/a> that work with the U.S. government to resettle refugees. More than 100 resettlement offices were closed<\/a> during the Trump years.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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America Will Welcome More Refugees as Biden Lifts Trump’s Misguided Restrictions<\/a><\/blockquote>